My docter told me today I cant have any dairy stuff and no nothing with MSG in it.
My food in take is getting limited. I need help bad and I dont know how soon I can see my allergist.Has anyone ever had a docter or an alergist tell them they have this ?

Yep, I have that condition. My allergist scratched my back with a tongue depressor and it hived up. (but I knew about this before that). I think often goes along with a lot of allergies--my dermographism isn't very severe, so it doesn't really bother me. Other than the fact that I get hives if my skin is scratched it doesn't impact my life in any way. No...actually...that isn't *quite* true. People with dermographism are more likely to have chronic hives for no particular reason (I think I react to particular triggers, however).
My allergist doesn't view my scratch tests as very accurate because my skin is reactive. I find that annoying because there isn't really any way of getting a diagnosis for allergies that aren't severe. (I think some allergists, though, do a pinprick without any solution and they take that into account when analysing the pinprick test.)

One of my sisters is also dermagraphic and she has a lot of allergies. An aunt, on the other hand, is dermagraphic but has no food allergies. She does have environmental allergies (+ asthma, I think) and is sensitive to MSG.

I have a rather server case of dermatographism, an ER doctor at my local hospital actually told me i had it... i was in for an asthma attack, and him diagonsng it is probably the ONLY good story i have about the hospital.

for a few years before i was told what i had my sister would often look very shocked at the marks on my skin and nag me about scratching, so it was such a relief to have a name for it. there isn't a lot of info about so i had to go to a dermatologist to help me deal with it.

the VERY tricky part about it is that i'm alleric to benadryll so treatment hasn't been working so well. I'm on Ractine and Doxipine daily But it's only helping to a point, and it's gets VERY embaressin when co-workers ask me "dusty what the heck did you DO?" and i'm like "bleep!! is it that bad!?"

. I've NEVER thought that the flare ups could be food related. I think I'm going to have to start keeping a food diary again!

I'm so glad I stumbled acros this page cause now i have another culprate to look into now! this is GREAT!!

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